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AMD has revealed its CPU and GPU roadmaps for the upcoming five years, during a press conference at the PC Cluster Consortium event in Japan. AMD’s Junji Hayashi put up a number of slides during the conference, unveiling its roadmap to 2020 and confirming AMD has concrete plans for the next decade.

Clearly unphased by the rumours of a buyout from Samsung, AMD has committed to development of graphics processing units, central processing units, server CPUs, and hybrid accelerated processing units for the foreseeable future. [More]

Late last week Microsoft announced a free-to-play Halo game would be coming to PC, in Russia only for now. In development at Saber Interactive, the first gameplay footage of Halo Online has leaked in a 17-minute video.

PC gamers have been calling out for more of the Master Chief since Halo 2 way back in 2007, and on first impressions Halo Online looks like it could be answer to our prayers. Graphically it looks like an up-ressed version of Halo 3, playing out like a combination of the Xbox 360 title and its Halo: Reach spin-off. [More]

Techland’s getting in the spirit of April Fools with a 24-hour only virus takeover in Dying Light tomorrow. Players who hop in to the zombie-filled world on April 1st will find themselves equipped with super-powered abilities and inhuman strength.

It might have a $1000 asking price but that doesn’t seem to be deterring PC gamers from picking up Nvidia’s GeForce GTX Titan X in vast numbers. Nvidia’s flagship graphics card is currently the fastest single-GPU card on the market, and the need for more graphics power has seen demand outstrip supply throughout Europe.

Over on CaseKing.de a GTX Titan X will set you back €1,199 but that hasn’t deterred buyers, with the German online store admitting in a recent interview “the demand exceeds the available hardware. We have already sold impressive numbers and we are getting new GeForce GTX Titan Xs sent to the warehouse.” [More]

No more will you have to feel guilty when the sun’s blazing down outside and you’re staying indoors for an Unreal Tournament session - the next-generation solar-powered graphics cards will ensure peak gaming PC performance when the sun is at its brightest.

Reports have emerged a leading graphics card manufacturer, who cannot be named just yet, has been investigating the possibility of using a hybrid of solar and electric energy for its next-generation GPUs. Power demands of cards from 2018 and beyond are likely to be so demanding the power output from a typical PSU will be unable to cope with top-end gaming performance. [More]

All eyes might be firmly fixed on AMD’s R9 300 series of graphics cards, but AMD is already looking ahead to 2016, when its next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM) GPU will arrive. The new graphics processing unit we now know will be codename ‘Greenland’, and is expected to replace the Fiji GPU and go head-to-head with Nvidia’s Pascal.

The R9 400 series Greenland GPU will support the second generation of HBM memory, doubling the density, speed, and bandwidth of the first-generation memory used on AMD’s imminent Radeon R9 390X. As part of the ‘Arctic Islands’ family of graphics card products, the Greenland GPU will likely support DirectX 12 Tier 3 and the upcoming Vulkan API. [More]

Ubisoft has revealed a new trailer for Rainbow Six: Siege, demonstrating a brand-new class-based operator system. Five distinct classes are available for both attackers and defenders, with each granted unique skills, weapons, and abilities.

SAS member Sledge can go in all guns blazing, making use of a close-quarters shotgun and breaching hammer, while Ash is a sniper capable of firing long-distance breaching charges to help her teammates. Each and every operator will have a member of the opposite team with counter-abilities poised to take them down, in intense rock, paper, scissor encounters. [More]

If you’ve been keeping an eye for the long-delayed PC port of Dead or Alive 5, you might be best off holding onto your cash for a little while. Initial reports suggest this is exactly the sort of slapdash port we’d feared.

In amongst the graphical downgrade we head of a few weeks ago, the PC edition of Dead or Alive 5: Last Round out today comes without basic functions such as Steam Achievements, Steam cloud saves, key rebinding, and, most bizarrely, multiplayer support or any kind. [More]

The ever-committed Slightly Mad Studios has revealed plans for a series of post-launch content updates for its upcoming racing simulator, Project CARS. In addition to featuring one of the largest real-life track rosters ever seen, Slightly Mad Studios will be adding new content each and every month following the racer’s launch in May.

The first car to be added will be the Lykan Hypersport. The star of the show in the latest Fast & Furious move, the Lykan Hypersport will be pulling up to the start line in June, available to download free of charge. While Slightly Mad Studios hasn’t indicated how many content updates it plans to create after launch, it has said this is just a sneak-peek at how Project CARS is set to expand in the future. [More]